The Big Country
Big they fought! Big they loved! Big their story!
The Big Country (1958)
Timing:
2:46 (166 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Western, Romance
Budget
$0
Revenue
$3 500 000
Director
Actors
Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, Alfonso Bedoya, Chuck Connors, Chuck Hayward, Buff Brady
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Franz Planer
Composer
Artist
Audition
Dorothy Whitney
Editing
Robert Belcher, John Faure
All team (54)
All team (54)
Short description
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. in 2006.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming on the movie had such a depressing effect on Jean Simmons (1929-2010) that for many years after its completion, she refused to even talk about it. In one interview in the late 1980s, she said that filming was simply unbearable because, as soon as the actors learned their lines for the next day's shooting, they were brought a revised script and had to sit up all night learning the new version of their lines, and then in the morning they were given yet another rewritten script, and this happened constantly.
- Gregory Peck (1916-2003) and director William Wyler (1902-1981) became friends several years before the start of work on this film. This happened during the filming of the comedic melodrama "Roman Holiday" (Wyler, 1953). Although the actor and director were friends, this did not prevent them from constantly arguing and quarreling. After one such argument, Peck simply walked off the set, and Wyler angrily declared to reporters that he would never work with Peck again in his life. Peck and Wyler reconciled three years later, but the director kept his word and never worked with Peck again.
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